Publisher's Synopsis
"Joseph Allen Freeborn served in Vietnam from August 3, 1971 through March 16, 1972, stationed in Da Nang where the US Air Force had a major air base. In Vietnam the author was attached to the 1st/46th - 196th Light Infantry Brigade, an off shoot of the Americal or 23rd Infantry Division, based in Chu-Lai, South Vietnam. This book tells of this draftee's struggles, sacrifices and ultimate survival of a war he wanted nothing to do with. The author was born in Mineola, New York to a working class family, and at the age of 5, he moved to Marlboro, New York, where his parents bought an apple farm. The letters recorded here are actual unedited reproductions of the letters he received in Nam and letters he sent home. The author took many years to compile this book, with the hope that reader could get a better sense of that divisive war fought so many years ago. The thought of writing this book at first was overwhelming, as he had spent so muc
